Merit is a blackmail
The heading picture of this entry, “Il merito e’ un ricatto!” (“Merit is a blackmai!l”), is a writing on a wall in a street close to the University area in … Read more
UNED | Madrid
The heading picture of this entry, “Il merito e’ un ricatto!” (“Merit is a blackmai!l”), is a writing on a wall in a street close to the University area in … Read more
In her influential 2003 book, Unequal childhood, the sociologist Annette Lareau uses a gardening metaphor and distinguishes two types of parenting styles, “concerted cultivation” and “accomplishment of natural growth”. Concerted … Read more
Some years we (Luis Garrido and I) published an article (here the link) where we analyze the possible appearance and formation of a new working class of unskilled service workers or, … Read more
In recent paper we (Carlos Gil and I) investigate how social origins provide an advantage in labour markets outcomes (income and quality of the occupation) among subject with the same … Read more
Ilze Plavgo and I have written a background paper for the 2019 UNDP Human Development Report. In our paper we examine the potential of education to act as the ‘great equalizer’ … Read more
Data on socio-economic status of patients and deaths with COVID-19 are not systematically collected and are still very rare. Evidence of a higher risk of dying from COVID-19 for individuals of low social … Read more
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (also kwon as the frequency bias) is the phenomenon where something you recently learned or paid attention to suddenly appears ‘everywhere’. In my case patterns of compensatory advantage (CA) … Read more
The picture of this entry is the Triumph of the Death, a fresco from palazzo Abatellis in Palermo. It shows the Death riding an horse and firing an arrow. On the lower … Read more
In his book on the global history of inequality Walter Scheidel argues that there are four forces that have effectively managed to decrease economic inequality over history. The four “horsemen of leveling” … Read more